Conference Finalized - May 7, 2013

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May 7, 2013

Omaha Association of Government Accountants

1/2 Day Educational Spring Training Seminar

Topics include: Why Executives Commit Fraud – Dr. Vasant Raval Professor Creighton University;

The Pros and Cons of Public and Private Partnerships – Carol Ebdon – Professor UNO;

IT General Controls – Including the use of the SOC Audit Reports – Sean Winekauf – KPMG LLP, Risk Consulting

Location: Mammel Hall Room 320 A&B

Time: 12:30 – 4:30

Registration cost before April 26: AGA members $65.00

Other prof member organizations: $75.00

April 27 and After: All $80.00

Pay online at www.omahaaga.org   or RSVP: jlui@oppd.com

4 hours of CPE applied for  

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For the fourth year in a row the Omaha Chapter has received a Platinum Award for its outstanding chapter year. Sara Ransford and Sharon Medina should be congratulated for leading a fantastic chapter year 2011/2012. Platinum awards are given to chapters that have met the top level of points in all areas of the chapter recognition program. Jude Lui and Sharon will travel to San Diego to the National PDC to receive the recognition. Thanks to the board that helped develop this successful chapter year! Way to go team!

AGA’s Citizen - Centric Reporting Initiative

In 2008, AGA surveyed the public on the effectiveness of government fiscal reporting. Eighty-nine percent said that, as taxpayers, they are entitled to transparent financial management information, and 57 percent said that government has an obligation to provide it. They further indicated that government is failing to meet its financial management reporting needs, and that poor performance has created a problem of trust between residents and their governments. The survey showed that governments need new innovative means of communication to overcome those challenges.

AGA’s citizen-centric reports are designed to help remedy this. The program is an easily adoptable reporting option for all governments, including guidelines for content, a design template and completed reports.

The AGA Citizen-Centric Government Reporting Initiative is steadily expanding. The U.S. Departments of the Interior and Defense as well as the U.S. Coast Guard have produced reports at the federal level. The states of Oregon, Nevada, South Carolina, Tennessee and Washington as well as cities and counties such as Saco, ME, Tallahassee, FL, Portland, OR, and Blount County, TN, have produced Citizen-Centric Reports to the benefit of their citizens. Many others are in the works.

We encourage you to take the initiative to work with your government employer or with the city, town or state where you live and persuade them to produce a similar report. AGA is ready and waiting to help with free consulting advice, a template and other tools to help you accomplish this goal. Please visitwww.agacgfm.org/citizen/construct.aspx or call Susan Fritzlen at 800.AGA.7211 for more details.

Performance - Based Management

Public officials can speed up and enhance government reforms and transparency through performance-based management (PBM) right now with modest changes to existing information systems. PBM integrates existing financial, operations and other data into eye-opening and actionable facts for enlightened decisions. It is able to consistently track cost and performance over time and improve predictive ability. PBM is flexible, so that different entities can tailor it to their needs and still give top leaders consistent, cross-government views of performance and the cost of creating societal value. Read the report.

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In spring 2009, nearly 500 government financial executives and managers from the United States and Canada participated in the 15th annual chief financial officer (CFO) survey sponsored by the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) and AGA Professional Corporate Partner Grant Thornton. Key topics for 2009 include economic recovery, transparency, what new CFOs need to know and annual financial statements. Read the report.

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Omaha AGA Now Accepts Credit Card Payments!

Members and guest we are now set up to accept credit card and PayPal account payments online. Click the event from the event calendar that you wish to register for, click the “buy now” button; a link takes you out to a secure PayPal site.